The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-16

MAJOR y :ll,AaG coNlpIIN1Nr.
He Ia Surprised 20 ftnd That Han,iet II i
liis String Of 'Chcstnuts.
You funny men have had d great deal Is
say about chostnuts In connection With min.
strel shows and circus performances, y OBJ 4
served Major Iasys 70 tho Snake Editor
You arc right, Major, replied. tho latter,
stho festive rd.mat, and sthes bellfcncd
clown hare; been criticised as chestnut pur.sS
ycyov. ! must admit n * y;
,.%J,ist %. Well, / I want you TO drop; the B
eirc,iscs and minstrols, and give Tic ,legiti.
innto drama q few Swhacks for the chcstnuts
tisserying up now.'' y \. Y
~, you ''are certainly mistaken, Major;
there larr no ehestnuts In the legitimate
drama & 81 4 ~ VI W. = 8
III There arc moi, you sayS i We'll, you lust
ought 70 sec, Hamlet played. I'd heard u I
good deal about tho beauty and power o.
shakspcarcan plays, and all that sort ool !,
thing; 80 went TO SEQ Hamlet q few nights
ago, and blamed II II Isn't a string Of chest. I
nuts from ono end TO the other. i
You surprise me; Major
atics; Twas surprised myself. Why, one j
;of; the fist remarks got or was, Tho air 4
bites shrewdly;:it very cold ~ Thcn,, an 4
other actor replied, II; Is q nipplng aud mi
eager mir 2 Nov, SIT. both those remarks arc /;
chestnuts, I've heard them eyer since WAS +
achild. You have heard them yourself, Il "
expect \, 4 Y I. = ~
The Snake Editor admitted TINT he had
heard both expressions before FL Z II Nh
I"Of course you have. & Then In another
rart one Of tho, playcrs says, lFrailty, thy
name Is woman Now It's useless to at. 4
tempt topalm that Oft on me rs news Why
Two heard my; father tell my mother that a )
hundred times, in my youthful days. y And z
hero they brought It out at tho Opera House :
in the legitimate drama
....Ycs.nn5 ~ H, 2
Then there was another expression, 1T Is I.
moro honorctl In the, breach than In tho oh 4;
scrvancc Perhaps you'll tell mo that isn't
a CHESTNUT N y 3 so,
ut has a chestnutty air, I'll admit,'
"a chcstnutty afr. Why, man, It Is en-
veloped in q chcstnutty fog. Then tho man 1.
that took the ghost part ratified of: 9
az am thy fathers spirit, q. ;s; Z
Doomed for certain term to walk the night. 4
- But that nm forbid ~ Z
To tell tho secrets OF my prison house, 4 !. *
q. I could a taie unfold, whose lightest word "a
q Would harrow up thy soul, frcczc thy young Z;
Mako thy; two eyes, like stars! start from 4
their spheres :!
Thy knotted md combined locks to part, 1, e III
And each particular hair to stand on end, n, Y
Like quilts upon tho fretful porcupInc. \
"Why, If n minstrel dared to venture On trI II
anything as old as that he'd be drowned 4
with the noise Of chestnut bells" 81. Z
Perhaps z; - II
i perhaps! There's no perhaps about it.
Then another actor remarked, q. sa,cyj rs i
you please o, my prophetic soul, my ll:.s
clio y" ;ti2s:9 y u
g"He was thinking Of his pawnbroker, 81
probably. 3.
Don't know; but you'll admit the e *.
preston is rank chestnut ~ = 81
81 believe it is somewhat DID," 80.
Certainly it Is. Then again Hamlet
struck IN attitude, and rccited long string 4
ofstuG thut Is more Of u chestnut than tho i;
expression 'ratsn 81!
"What ;was that?' M. /, fi5S 4! g, y. So
ut was this--you have certainly heard IT, 81
"'To be, or not to he, that Is tho question; HI
Whether It's nobler in the mind to suffer ).
The Biings md arrows Of outrageous fortune, I
Or to take arms against sea Of troubles, y
And by opposing, end them? To lie-to sleer4 !.
No more; md by sleep, to say we end Isl
Tho hesirt-nchc, and tho thousand natural 4
h E shocks 4 Il Z ~, !. AZ r. A. Y
Tint flesh Is heir to-'tis contamination i.j3 Z;
Dcvoutly to bc wished. To die; to sccp: g = ~
10 sleep! pcrchance to dream; nh, there's tho &
81 e rub; tSst. - - 81
For In TINT sleep of death what dreams may Z I
come 4. .'F &. X, ,= 49, a3i!
When We have shuied or tbs mortal COLI
And the rest of it-you know what It ISL
20, yes; Two heard that frcqucntly.n s5:5iiy
y should say 80! Why, it was in the Fifth
Reader when 1 went to school. Another
chestnut was, 4onc may smile, and smile, \
and be villnin.' I" a.S5 81 Il. ssS51y! !.
THAT refers, you know, to the tendency
OF villains to smile when they have n chance. +
They are not Prohibitonists MS a ruler ~
NO, but what Pm getting at is that it is Z
chestnut. Why, it is us old rs the hills"
Very nearly. We're there any more an,
cient rcmarks?" a b gsfg: Z.
PLENTY of them. One WINS: There arc arc !,
more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, 4.
than are drcamt of in your philosophy, and s
another was, Get thee to nunncry.' Both
OF them are musty with age" e .!t.5S, 4
Quite old, acquiesced the Snake Editor. z,
well, as II all these were not enough,
they ground out such venerable eags as y
Sweets to the sweet "Tis rs easy rs lying
Now is the very wtching time Of night 4
when churchyarls yawn,' Lay not that /
ilattcring JUNCTION 10 your soul, Assume J.
virtue ifyou have it not" lg,5
"Wcrc they all?' 49, RI a ".
70, my gracious no. They gave us, .Bc
thou chaste rs ice, as pure rs snow, thou \
shalt not escape calumny,' and Imperial +
Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop
hole to keep the wind away"
And did nobody ring chestnut bell p, 1T
mot q bell And so think it's about "A
time the legitimate drama gave us something (
new in the Shakspcarcan line. You news. I,
paper fellows ought to touch them up about &
it." iTt=2 & - q -. -
eve certainly will. Good day." y.
$50 long" WIN. Ii. Sry,rrr. 4
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